FDA, Oystercatcher
Oct 29, 2009 04:44 PM EST
The new regulations would require them to be zapped, boiled or frozen, potentially
tripling the cost and killing the delicious salty-smooth taste raw oyster-eaters have come to love. In the process, it would suck time and money from suppliers, restaurants, and grocery chains.
It's all because about
15 people -- out of the millions of Americans that consume raw oysters safely every year -- die from potential complications. And even
those people usually have AIDS, diabetes, hepatitis, or liver damage. But the FDA says that "persuading them to change their behavior with respect to shellfish consumption or other risk factors has proven extremely difficult."
Because of a few irresponsible individuals -- whose afflictions are oftentimes preventable, whether that be through drinking less or not participating in risky sexual behavour --
we all have to suffer.